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(No Model.)

A. RIPPIEN.

Tobacco Cutter. No. 234,068. Patented Nov. 2,1880.

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UNrTED STATES PATENT EEICEe ADOLPH RIPPIEN, OF READING, PA., ASSIGNOR TOWILLIAM M. GRISCOM, MATTHAN HARBSTER, AND WILLIAM HARBSTER, OF SAMEPLAGE.

TOBACCO-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,068, dated November2, 1880. Application filed September 21, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that I, ADOLPH RIPPIEN, a citizenof the United States, residing in Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania,have invented an Improvement in Tobacco-Cutters,

of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so combine, in a tobacco-cutter, aknife adapted to inclined ways on a frame and a lever connected to the1o knife, with a device for steadying the latter, that an inclined cutmay be made Without any undue friction of the knife in its ways.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures I and 2 are side views ot' myimproved tobaccocutting machine, representing the operating parts indifferent positions, the front plate of the frame being absent in bothviews; Fig. 3, a vertical section on the line l 2, Fig. l; and

Fig. 4, a detached view of the arm for steadyzo ing the knife.

Part only of the base A of the machine is shown in the drawings, theremainder of this base being continued in the direction of the arrow asfar, or about as far, as the lever B is 2 5 continued in the samedirection, the said lever being of sufficient length to obtain thedesired leverage.

To the base A is secured the arched frame I), and to the latter issecured, by set-screws t 3o a, the detachable plate E, which is of thesame shape as the arched frame.

The knife is situated between the frame and detachable plate, the saidknife consisting of a blade, G, of steel, and a bar, G', to which theblade is secured by set-screws, the knife being adapted to inclinedparallel ways b b, formed on the arched frame.

The lever B is pivcted to the frame by a fulcrum-pin, d, and at a shortdistance from this fulcrum a pin, c, projects from the side of the 4olever, and to this pin is connected the upper end of a link, H, thelower end of which is jointed to the bar G of the knife, so that ondepressing the lever the knife will traverse the inclined Ways until theedge of the blade comes in contact with an appropriate cuttingbed, f, onthe base of the machine.

When the blade is acting on the tobacco it has a tendency to tilt,especially if the tobacco is not centrally adjusted, and this tiltingmust 5o result in an undue friction of the ends of the knife in its waysand in an imperfect cutting of the tobacco. In order to obviate thisdifficulty, I loosely connect an arm, I, to the pin e of the lever, thelower end of this arm being contained within a socket, i, or betweenprojections on the bar G of the knife, which is thus sufficientlysteadied during its downward course to obviate the objectionable tiltingabove referred to.

I claim as my invention- A tobacco-cutter in which a knife adapted toinclined ways in a frame and a lever pivoted thereto and connected tothe said knife are combined with a steadying-arm, I, also connected tothe said lever, and adapted to a socket, i, or its equivalent, on thesaid knife, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in thepresence of 7o two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH RIPPIEN.

